Effect

Effect Types

Most effects fall under one of the three types of (in order of relevance) physical, mental or magical. The type has nothing to do with the method by which the effect was caused - most spells produce physical, not magical effects. It does determine what type of Wild Infusion is needed to remove the effect. Physical is probably the most important, and also the type of the starting Wild Infusion most races get. After that comes mental and finally magical - although magical effects, though rare, can be extremely dangerous. Effects of the type "other" are notable in that they cannot be removed by infusions and are also unaffected by various duration-reducing talents.

Beneficial Effects

Magical

Arcane Storm

The target is the epicenter of a terrible arcane storm. Gives arcane resistance.

Earthen Barrier

Reduces physical damage received.

Elemental Surge: Lightning

When hit for the first time in the turn, you will not take damage but instead teleport to a random adjacent square. Using a lightning rune grants this effect for a short time, also doing over 300 points of critical lightning damage when possessing the Elemental Surge prodigy.

Haste

Increases global action speed by %d%% and casting speed by a certain percentage, depending on the effect's power.

Invisibility

Improves/gives invisibility with a certain power, depending on the effect's power.

Mana Overflow

Increased maximum mana.

Manasurge

Regenerating mana per turn.

Molten Skin

Reduces fire damage received.

Reflective Skin

Magically returns a percentage of any damage done to the attacker.

Physical

Blocking

Can apply shield block value against the next physical attack - and if the shield provides the right resistance for it, also non-physical damage. It does not have to be a melee attack. If this completely negates damage, the attacker is set up for a Counterstrike (see under Detrimental Effects).

Dwarven Resilience

Increases armour, physical and spell saves. Usually granted by the Dwarven talent Resilience of the Dwarves.

Evasion

Grants a flat chance (depending on power) to completely negate melee attacks, independent of accuracy and defense.

Free Action

Immunity from Stun, Daze and Pinning (this includes variants such as being frozen or immobilized). It does not, however, help with removing existing effects.

Heroism

While under the Heroism effect, your Life can go into the negatives, but you will not die. How far below zero you can go depends on the effect's power. Instead of your current negative Life rating, three question marks (???) are displayed. Being at negative Life when Heroism runs out or is dispelled is fatal. Heroism also boosts your three highest Stats.

Recovery

Regain a small amount of Life each turn and have the effectiveness of additional healing increased. Usually gained from being at low Life and having the talent Vitality from the Conditioning tree.

Regeneration

Regain some Life each round.

Pain Suppression

Increases your resistance to all damage by the specified amount. Note that the increase in resistance is multiplicative, not additive, so it may show up as less on the character sheet if you already have resistancies. Also note that no resistance can be increased past its resistance cap, usually 70%. Typically this effect is granted by using a Wild Infusion.

Sensing

Allows detection of all Actors even through walls, darkness and similar, within the specified range. Usually gained via the talents Track, Vimsense or Foresight. It is also granted by several items.

Speed

Increases global action speed by a certain percentage, depending on the effect's power. This effect is usually granted by the Shalore talent Grace of the Eternals.

Wild Speed

Your movement speed is greatly increased (typically by a factor of five to ten). Any action other than moving (or opening doors and moving levers) will cancel the effect. Typically this is gained by Movement Infusions (which additionally grant Free Action when Wild Speed ends).

Wrath of the Eternals

Increases all damage dealt while at the same time increasing resistance to all damage. Thaloren racial talent.

Other

Continuum Destabilization

Despite the dangerous sounding name this is actually a good thing, protecting you from Paradox magic to a small extent. Conversely, if your enemies get this, it is slightly annoying.

Fade From Time

Grants some resistance to all damage types and reduces the duration of negative effects at the price of lowered damage output. Usually provided by the talent Fade From Time of the Paradox Mage tree Paradox

Detrimental Effects

Cross-tier Effects

These effects are automatically conferred when an attacker greatly outmatches the defender in a specific comparison of attributes, depending on the kind of attack.

• Off-guard occurs when a melee or archery attack hits, and the attacker's Accuracy is in a higher tier than the defender's Defense.
• Off-balance occurs when a physical talent hits, and the attacker's Physical Power is in a higher tier than the defender's Physical Save.
• Spellshocked occurs when a magical talent hits, and the attacker's Spellpower is in a higher tier than the defender's Magical Save.
• Brainlocked occurs when a mental talent hits, and the attacker's Mindpower is in a higher tier than the defender's Mental Save.

Cross-tier effects are removed on a "buy one get one free" basis by Wild Infusions of the appropriate type, when another effect is being removed. E.g. if a physical Wild Infusion is used to remove Stunned, and the target is also Off-guard, Off-guard will also be removed.

Magical

Decrepitude Disease

The target is infected by a disease, reducing its Dexterity and doing blight damage each turn.

Rotting Disease

The target is infected by a disease, reducing its Constitution and doing blight damage each turn. Reduced constitution also lowers maximum and effective life.

Spellshocked

All damage resistance is reduced by a certain percentage, usually 20%.

Weakness Disease

The target is infected by a disease, reducing its Strength and doing blight damage each turn. If you were carrying close to your maximum encumberance, the weight of your possesions may now prevent you from moving.

Stoned

The target has been turned to stone, making it subject to shattering but improving physical(+20%), fire(+80%) and lightning(+50%) resistances.

Mental

Agony

Take an increasing amount of mental damage per turn.

Brainlocked

Renders a random talent unavailable. No talents will cool down until the effect has worn off.

Confused

The target is confused, acting randomly (with a certain percentage chance) and unable to perform complex actions. Talents with "instant" activation as well as items can still be used reliably.

Physical

Acid Splash

Does a constant amount of acid damage per turn. Accuracy and damage are lowered for the effect's duration.

Anguish

Reduces Willpower and Cunning. If the target is not the player, it uses a simpler form of AI for the duration ("The target is in extreme anguish, preventing them from making tactical decisions").

Bleeding

Take a constant amount of physical damage per turn.

Blinded

The target is blinded, unable to see anything (while blind your map screen is completely black). Blinded monsters move about at random, and blinded spellcasters will fire spells in all directions. Note: This effect is often inflicted by Sun Infusions together with Luminescence (reduces stealth), and a Wild Infusion will randomly clear one, but not both.

Burning

Take a constant amount of fire damage each turn.

Constricted

The target is constricted, preventing movement and making it suffocate (target loses 'air level' each turn).

Corroded

Reduced Accuracy, Armour and Defense for the duration.

Counterstrike

The next incoming melee attack will do double damage. Usually caused by being blocked (see Beneficial Effects: Blocking) by a shield-user.

Cripple

Reduces the speed of combat actions, spells and mind powers. Basically everything except movement. In previous versions of the game, it reduced accuracy and physical power.

Crushing Hold

Take physical damage each turn. Usually applied together with Grapple and possibly Strangle Hold.

Cursed Wound

Take a constant amount of physical damage per turn and suffer reduced healing efficiency.

Dazed

Unable to move, and halves all damage done, defense, saves, accuracy, spell, mind and physical power. Any damage taken will remove the daze.

Deep Wound

Take a constant amount of physical damage each turn and suffer reduced healing efficiency.

Disable

Movement speed and physical power are reduced.

Disarmed

The target is maimed, unable to correctly wield a weapon.

Frozen

The target is encased in ice. All damage done to you will be split, 40% absorbed by the ice and 60% by yourself. Your defense is nullified while in the ice and you may only attack the ice but you are also immune to any new detrimental status effects. The target can not teleport or heal while frozen. The iceblock has a number of hitpoints before it is destroyed.

Frozen Feet

A weaker form of Frozen that only prevents movement, same as being Pinned.

Grappled

Unable to move (but teleportation is still possible) and suffer from reduced defense and accuracy.

Immobilized

Like Pinned, you are unable to move, this time the reason is telekinetics. Still a physical effect though.

Insidious Poison

Take some nature damage each turn and suffer reduced healing efficiency.

Knockback

Pushes you a number of squares in a particular direction.

Lowered Resistance

Resistance against a particular damage type is lowered by the specified amount. Negative resistances increase damage taken.

Luminescence

Reduces stealth.

Maimed

All damage dealt is reduced, in addition to a 30% penalty to global speed.

Off-balance

Global speed is reduced by 15%.

Off-guard

Attacker gains 10% critical chance and power.

Paralyzed

The target is unable to act.

Pinned

The target is pinned to the ground, unable to move. Teleportation is still an option, however.

Poisoned

Take some nature damage each turn.

Ravage

Lose one beneficial physical effect per turn, and also take a constant amount of physical damage per turn. Usually this was caused by talents from the Solipsist Distortion tree.

Set Up

More likely to be critically hit, and all saves are reduced.

Slow

Reduces global action speed by a certain percentage.

Slow movement

Movement speed is reduced by the specified amount, but other actions (melee attack, spells, etc.) are unaffected.

Spell Disruption

A chance to fail any spell it cast and a chance each turn to lose spell sustains.

Strangle Hold

Cannot cast any spells and also suffer physical damage each turn. Usually applied together with Grapple and Crushing Hold.

Stunned

While stunned:

• all damage done is reduced by 70%
• movement takes twice as long
• up to four random talents are put on cooldown (instant use talents like shield runes or wild infusions are exempt from this)
• no talents come off cooldown for the duration

Sunder Armour

Armour value is reduced for the duration.

Sunder Arms

Accuracy is reduced for the duration.

Weakened

All damage reduced by the specified amount.

Other

Damage Smearing

Protects from all damage (except that with type temporal) for the duration. Once it wears of, it will return the damage as temporal damage over a number of turns. See the detrimental effect "Smeared" for how this works. Usually Damage Smearing is provided by the talent of that name from the Temporal Warden tree Temporal Combat.

Infusion Saturation

This effect increases the cooldown of your Infusions. It is caused by using Infusions and gets stronger if you use infusions while it is active. Ultimately it serves to limit how much you can use Infusions without taking a rest. Since it's of the type "other", it can't be cleared with Wild Infusions or reduced in duration with Timeless. There are parallel saturation effects for Runes and Taints.

Runic Saturation

This effect increases the cooldown of your Runes. It is caused by using Runes and gets stronger if you use infusions while it is active. Ultimately it serves to limit how much you can use Runes without taking a rest. Since it's of the type "other", it can't be cleared with Wild Infusions or reduced in duration with Timeless (talent). There are parallel saturation effects for Infusions and Taints.

Silenced

The target is silenced, preventing it from casting spells and using some vocal talents.

Smeared

The price for using Damage Smearing. Will inflict the damage shielded by Damage Smearing as temporal damage over the specified number of turns. See the beneficial effect "Damage Smearing."

Summoning Destabilization

Increases the cooldown for summoning talents.

Tainted

This effect increases the cooldown of your Taints, similarly to the saturation effects for Infusions and Runes.

Temporal Wake

The price you pay for having used a Time Shield. Delivers the damage taken by the shield in the form of temporal damage, distributed over the effect's duration.

Time Prison

The target is removed from the normal time stream, unable to act but unable to take any damage. Time does not pass for this creature.